#tinkering
Tinkering hands
Lead to restless minds,
Always seeking
What they might find,
In systems running
Perfectly well,
Please, act with caution,
Results may repel.
Leave alone what
Smoothly flows;
If working gears
Continue to go,
For in the quest
To meddle away,
We sometimes cause
More disarray.
Wisdom lies
In knowing when
To step aside,
To leave again.
For changes made
Without true need
Can plant dysfunctions
Stubborn seed.
If it works,
Then let it be,
Sometimes that's
The wisest plea!
Not all that’s old
Needs to be renewed;
Leave it alone
To see itself through.
©️Lizzie Bevis
Dec 22, 2024
Dec 22, 2024 at 10:41 PM UTC
_You ask of which I am most afeart, the rumbling tumblings of the troll beneath the bridge or the tinkering favours of an eccentric fairy godmother. Alas, it is the marzipan crumbs of inspiration leading me down the brambled garden path which most unsettle me; the ink that does not write; the unpainted page with not a gingerbread house...in sight._
Sep 5, 2020
Sep 5, 2020 at 3:33 AM UTC
he has a penchant
for tinkering with stuff
if given half the chance
he'd tinker with his navel fluff
I've seen him tinkering
with working order stuff
that doesn't need any tinkering
put upon its cuff
some while back he
decided to have a tinker
with a room partition at the hall
and as a result of his
non essential tinkering
down came the east facing wall
tinkering is an occupation
of the tampering ******
unnecessarily touching stuff
with an interfering fiddle
Mar 12, 2018
Mar 12, 2018 at 7:06 PM UTC
Never Finished – Always On The Way
How can anything
Be ever finished?
In its way nonsensical
That nothing’s final;
Always subject to revision, change.
You-name-it:
Habit concrete, thought abstract -
Changed and changing;
Going on, evolving, processed.
Discontented and/or vexed:
A sign that’s fixed:
You’re moving on, non-judge-
or sentiment-al.
Flexibly,
You willingly
Go with it.
(As they say, ‘the flow’).
Your poems your art, your language too.
Throughout your days,
Through all your years -
And losing fears you stay refreshed
Because you know you ne’er diminish,
Always sure you will replenish, be replenished.
Squeamish never,
Deeds and exploits never finished,
Still you end this life light-hearted,
Satisfied and fully furnished,
That too, no doubt, never finished.
Never Finished – Always On The Way 8.28.2016
Definitely Didactic; Birth, Death & In Between II;
Arlene Corwin
Aug 28, 2016
Aug 28, 2016 at 3:01 PM UTC